Fritchley Van SPACE WALKER II
N197BF is a Fritchley Van SPACE WALKER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Interlochen, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 2025 and expires on January 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 18, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Fritchley Van
- Model
- SPACE WALKER II
- Serial number
- 019
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A1824B (octal 50301113)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 28, 2025
- Expires
- January 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- January 28, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 18, 2002
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00336481
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gray Shane Charles
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4449 Maple City Hwy
Interlochen, MI 49643-9645
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N197BF, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Gray Shane Charles, an individual, certificate issued January 28, 2025, expires January 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 18, 2002, 5 years after the 1997 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 019 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N197BF according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N197BF. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data